scientifica

scientifica

Tall and condensed bitmap font for geeks.

scientifica is largely based on
creep, with a number of
minor tweaks to improve readability (a matter of taste of
course). Most characters are just 4px wide, which is brilliant for
low dpi(90-120) displays.

What\’s new?

• Scaleable ttf format
• Raster formats: otb and bdf
• Ligatures (vim and neovim only)
• Bold and Italic variants
• New Characters to the following unicode blocks:
  • Geometric Shapes
  • Arrows
  • Miscellaneous Technical
  • Miscellaneous Symbols
  • Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols-A
  • Private Use Area (Powerline symbols)
  • Mathematical Operators
  • Box Drawings
• Revamped characters: V, *, f, W, M, ~, & , i, t, a, (), [], {}
• Vertically centered operators
• Larger Brackets to ease recognizability in streams of text

Gallery

Installation

Installation instructions have been moved to
INSTALL.md.

Ligatures

Scientifica supports ligatures in Vim and Neovim via the
conceal feature. Please read the
Ligatures
manual for instructions.

Credits

Most Basic Latin characters are from
creep by
romeovs.
Creep has been optimized for linux terminals by
raymond-w-ko. Check out
his version here.
Some characters are based on
Lemon.
Thanks to the creators of Font
Forge for, well,
creating fontforge.